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James Canton spent two years sitting beneath an 800-year-old oak tree near his home in Essex, watching acorns fatten and butterflies land on the massive knurled grey trunk.

That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.

Energesman, meanwhile, has plans to turn the fattened fly larvae into a new income stream.

He likens the effect of these chemicals on water-born bacteria to offering hungry humans a roomful of fattening fast food.

Hormones are usually used to fatten cattle in the later stages of production, a Defra spokesperson said, and therefore traces would be identifiable through checks.